Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core

Oxyde ORM is a type-safe, Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a high-performance Rust core designed for clarity, speed, and reliability.

Inspired by the elegance of Django's ORM, Oxyde focuses on explicitness over magic, providing a modern developer-friendly workflow with predictable behavior and strong typing throughout.

Heads up! Oxyde is a young project under active development. The API may evolve between minor versions. Feedback, bug reports, and ideas are very welcome. Feel free to open an issue!

• Django-style API — Familiar Model.objects.filter() syntax
• Pydantic v2 models — Full validation, type hints, serialization
• Async-first — Built for modern async Python with asyncio
• Rust performance — SQL generation and execution in native Rust
• Multi-database — PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL support
• Transactions — transaction.atomic() context manager with savepoints
• Migrations — Django-style makemigrations and migrate CLI

Benchmarks vs popular Python ORMs (avg ops/sec, higher is better):

Full benchmark report: Documentation

This creates oxyde_config.py with your database settings and model paths.

# models.py
from oxyde import Model, Field

class User(Model):
    id: int | None = Field(default=None, db_pk=True)
    name: str
    email: str = Field(db_unique=True)
    age: int | None = Field(default=None)

    class Meta:
        is_table = True

oxyde makemigrations
oxyde migrate

import asyncio
from oxyde import db
from models import User

async def main():
    await db.init(default="sqlite:///app.db")

    # Create
    user = await User.objects.create(name="Alice", email="alice@example.com", age=30)

    # Read
    users = await User.objects.filter(age__gte=18).all()
    user = await User.objects.get(id=1)

    # Update
    user.age = 31
    await user.save()

    # Delete
    await user.delete()

    await db.close()

asyncio.run(main())

from oxyde.db import transaction

async with transaction.atomic():
    user = await User.objects.create(name="Alice", email="alice@example.com")
    await Profile.objects.create(user_id=user.id)
    # Auto-commits on success, rolls back on exception

from fastapi import FastAPI
from oxyde import db

app = FastAPI(
    lifespan=db.lifespan(
        default="postgresql://localhost/mydb",
    )
)

@app.get("/users")
async def get_users():
    return await User.objects.filter(is_active=True).all()

Connection URLs:

postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/database
sqlite:///path/to/database.db
sqlite:///:memory:
mysql://user:password@localhost:3306/database

Auto-generated admin panel for Oxyde ORM with zero boilerplate.

• Automatic CRUD, search, filters, export
• FastAPI, Litestar, Sanic, Quart, Falcon
• Theming, authentication, bulk operations

GitHub →

Full documentation: https://oxyde.fatalyst.dev/

• Quick Start — Get up and running
• User Guide — Models, queries, relations, transactions
• Cheatsheet — Quick reference for all methods

If you have suggestions or find a bug, please open an issue or create a pull request on GitHub.

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.